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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Gavin say is the unwritten code of the south?
(a) That white people are superior
(b) That life is for living
(c) That the family of the victim should be alllowed to hang the black man responsible
(d) That everyone should go to church

2. What is the name of the man Lucas has been accused of killing?
(a) Jock Stevens
(b) Vinson Gowrie
(c) Gavin Stevens
(d) James Buff

3. What does Charles buy Molly Beauchamp?
(a) A flowered imitation silk dress
(b) A diamond ring
(c) A gold bracelet
(d) An Alice band

4. What does Charles ask Aleck Sander to do?
(a) Get the car keys from his father
(b) Talk to Gavin
(c) Saddle up his horse
(d) Find some spades

5. What is Will Legate armed with?
(a) A sword
(b) A revolver
(c) A double barrel shotgun
(d) A single shot shot gun

6. Where does Charles eat his breakfast?
(a) In the kitchen
(b) In the dining room
(c) In the garden
(d) In the lounge

7. Where does Charles buy the tobacco?
(a) The super market
(b) The pharmacy
(c) The saloon
(d) The tobbaconist

8. What is the Sheriff's surname?
(a) Jackson
(b) Benjimin
(c) Hampton
(d) Smith

9. What is the name of the novel's narrator?
(a) Carothers Edmunds
(b) Gavin Stevens
(c) Charles Mallison
(d) Lucas Beachamp

10. Why do they find the grave so quickly?
(a) It is the only one with a headstone
(b) It is biggest in the graveyard
(c) It is full of fresh flowers
(d) It was the first one dug that winter

11. What does Charles do during breakfast?
(a) Falls asleep
(b) Prays
(c) Vomits
(d) Cries

12. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?
(a) The district attourney
(b) The senator
(c) The president
(d) The local judge

13. What does Uncle Gavin say a black man is expected to do in the south?
(a) Lose his temper and kill a white man
(b) Smile and play music
(c) Serve the white man
(d) Give himself up for lynching

14. On what day does Charles meet Lucas for the second time?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Wednesday
(d) Saturday

15. What kind of wood is the coffin made from?
(a) Oak
(b) Pine
(c) Ash
(d) Cedar

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucas lay on the bare cots?

2. Where does Lucas take Charles?

3. Who do they find inside the coffin?

4. What does Charles notice about the roads?

5. What does Charles do with the money when Lucas refuses it?

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